" in English. With that being said, many culturally aware Brazilians also use vamos, borrowed from Spanish. 7) Cabeça-dura Cabeça-dura is something that is likely to appear in the middle of a conversation. It literally means "hard head" however, it is generally used to call someone s...
2BThe Best Way To Know English New WordsWhen you are reading something in English, you may often meet with a new word. What'sthe best way to know it?You may look it up in an English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell you a lot about the word:the pronunciation,the part of speech(词性...
At first, the result wasthree dictionaries in a tie, so I decided to make things really hard. I added five new,reallyobscure, words. In fact, until today, I didn’t even know these existed:taray,zurumbático,pintiparar,proterviaandtaheño. Well, guess what,the winner is, again, Spa...
I got a job in a small office on the west side of Chicago and everyone walking in the door was speaking Spanish. I figured, “How hard could it be?” It was hard. It took two years.Here are the instructions I give to everyone who wants to learn:...
lexis- all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function lexicon,mental lexicon,vocabulary- a language user's knowledge of words practice- knowledge of how something is usually done; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner" ...
Here are my most highly recommended resources for learning the Spanish language. I frequently refer to them in many of the articles I write on this site either because I know they’re fantastic or they’ve been crucial to my own learning. Full transparency: From time to time I use ...
You may look it up in the English-Chinese dictionary.It will tell you something about the word:the pronunciation(发音),the part of speech(词性),the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word.But how can you know where the word is in thousands of English word...
1.“First Spanish Reader: A Beginner’s Dual-Language Book” This book not only teaches Spanish but has41 selections of short storiesto boot, advancing from basic verb forms to the future and conditional tenses. The source text is written by well-known Spanish and Latin American writers and ...
The best way to learn Spanish on your own is by studying Spanish media like movies, TV shows, music, etc. I got fluent in 6 months this way, you can, too.
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